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Essays on Agency in International Finance.
(2010)
Firms and investors often operate in environments with market imperfections and agency frictions. It is common wisdom that the effects of these microeconomic frictions are amplifed or mitigated by the quality of economic ...
Experimental Evidence about Earning, Saving, and Borrowing Money in Rural Malawi.
(2011)
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I estimate the wage elasticity of working in the day labor market in rural Malawi using panel data from a unique field experiment. Though employment in daily wage markets is ...
Brand Value and New Product Quality - Measurement, Theory, and Evidence
(2010)
The dissertation contains two papers that study the interactions between brand value and new product quality. The first paper develops a method to evaluate the effects of blockbuster products on a firm's brand value, and ...
Essays on Procurement with Information Asymmetry.
(2011)
Sourcing, once seen as a tactical function of vertically integrated firms, has today become strategic for firms that now rely on extensive, vertically disintegrated supply chains. Vertical disintegration leads to complex ...
Three Essays in the Public Economics of Offshore Hydrocarbon Investment and Production.
(2011)
Offshore sources, in both shallow and deep waters, are increasingly important contributors to global oil and natural gas production. As both resource owner and taxing authority, national governments play an important role ...
Empirical Essays on Firm Operations and Labor Economics
(2024)
This dissertation includes three papers that study firm operations and labor market adjustment using an empirical focus. The first chapter investigates the effect of workplace safety regulation on manufacturing operations. ...